The right way to play fingerstyle (the same system professional musicians use)

The best sounding fingerstyle patterns I know (from 20+ years of learning them)

How to mix and match patterns together to create complex tapestry’s

How to combine the melody line inside the chords themselves for stellar results!

How to create”landscape” when you play (essential if you want a polished sound)

Principals of TONE and how to extract a beautiful & rich sound regardless of your guitar!

Who Is This Course For?

If you can change between beginner open chords such as G, D, Em etc without problems then you’ll be able to take this course and achieve great results. The lessons will walk you through each step necessary to master this style of guitar from scratch.

Curriculum

Module 1: Preparation

Video 1 – How To Organize Your Fingers [3:48]

Video 2 – Your First Exercise [1:41]

Video 3 – Chord Quality [3:24]

Video 4 – Your First Exercise [2:09]

Video 5 – Playing Blind [1:32]

Video 6 – The Next Exercise [5:38]

Video 7 – How To Get The Best Tone [5:15]

Video 8 – The “So Slow It Hurts” Principal (S.S.I H) [4:27]

Module 2: Patterns & Expression

Video 9 – Pattern #1 [2:45]

Video 10 – Apply The Pattern To A Progression [3:31]

Video 11 – Pattern # 2 [3:08]

Video 12 – Apply It To A Progression [1:24]

Video 13 – Pattern # 3 [1:42]

Video 14 – Pattern # 3 With A Progression [1:51]

Video 15 – Pattern # 4 [3:57]

Video 16 – Use It With This Progression [1:16]

Video 17 – Revise All 4 Patterns [2:29]

Video 18 – The Importance Of Dynamics [2:54]

Video 19 – How To Phrase [3:22]

Video 20 – Mixing Patterns [3:19]

Video 21 – Travis Picking Style [3:09]

Module 3: Fingerstyle Chords

Video 22 – The D Chord [3:57]

Video 23 – Another Example [1:45]

Video 24 – The F Chord [2:59]

Video 25 – Running Patterns Through An F Chord [1:33]

Video 26 – “Get Out Of Jail” F Chord [1:13]

Video 27 – The G7 Chord And More Mixed Patterns [3:04]

Video 28 – The Gsus4 Chord [1:29]

Video 29 – Travis Picking Style [2:31]

Video 30 – Dadd9/11 [3:04]

Video 31 – The Gadd9 Chord [3:27]

Video 32 – Darker Tones [2:21]

Video 33 – Chord Fragments [2:40]

Video 34 – A Longer Example [2:22]

Video 35 – Introducing Fills [2:36]

Video 36 – An Even Longer Example [4:39]

Video 37 – D7/A Chord [3:27]

Module 4: The Magic Trick

Video 38 – Swing Feel [2:47]

Video 39 – Convert The Patterns Into A Swing Feel [3:11]

Video 40 – Try Applying A Swing Feel To This Progression [2:11]

Video 41 – Mixing Some Swing Patterns Together [1:42]

Video 42 – Swing Feel & Fill Lines [4:27]

Video 43 – Harmonized G Major Scale [2:14]

Video 44 – Swing Feel & A New Fadd9 [3:14]

Module 5: Fingerstyle Songs

Video 45 – True Love Ways (Buddy Holly) [6:16]

Video 46 – Close To You (The Carpenters) [6:48]

Video 47 – Yesterday (The Beatles) [7:04]

Video 48 – Cant Help Falling In Love (Elvis) [3:29]

Video 49 – Love Me Tender (Elvis) [6:50]

Video 50 – Hey Jude – Part 1 (The Beatles) [5:51]

Video 51 – Hey Jude – Part 2 [9:26]

Video 52 – Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (Van Morrison) [8:51]